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Plagued by the rhetoric of campus feminists, Boyle is tired of hearing so much about "terminology and text," about how "modern woman" in all her glory of Choice, Choice, and More Choice can't "have it all." Boyle claims that for campus feminists striking a blow for sexual equality means rejecting the "traditional' feminine roles" of mother and homemaker for the sake of succeeding in the work place." To her, being a feminist demands assuming these roles in addition to a career...
...granddaddy of all German Romantic operas, with its setting of a folktale about a forester who accepts magic bullets from the Devil to win the hand of his beloved in a shooting contest. For Waits, Burroughs and Wilson, what the opera provided wasn't an Ur-text but a pretext...
...Glaser, Lam spent more than 65 hours on the computer, using a complicated formula to produce the various combinations of offspring. The result is the fascinating chart on pages 66 and 67. Time makes no claim to scientific accuracy (although the process is described in more detail in the text accompanying the chart) but presents Lam's chimerical results in the spirit of fun and experiment...
...climax, so applause, although sustained, is painfully slow in coming. While Anne Pitoniak's Du is a tonic blend of folksy approachability and rigid religion, Julie Boyd's Keely seems far better educated and statelier than the beer-loving bar veteran and blue-collar knockabout sketched in the text...
Just whose text remains a matter of mystery. "Jane Martin" is a pseudonym for the author or authors of seven plays over the past decade, including the prizewinners Talking With and Cementville. It is widely believed the reclusive author is Jory himself, in collaboration with a literary adviser to his theater. Says Jory, who refuses to reveal anything: "She honestly feels, for whatever reason, that she couldn't write plays if people knew who she was and what she was." If remaining secret is the price for plays of the caliber of Keely and Du, let her stay hidden forever...